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RMCOE Grad Programs Earn Top-Tier Nat’l Ranks

From the RMCOE News article “UCSB Engineering Graduate Programs Earn Top-Tier National Rankings” Two programs landed in the top eight and four in the top thirteen in their fie ...
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ECE Graduate Courses 2025-26

This proposed schedule is subject to change. To review the most up-to-date listings of all courses, instructors, times and locations refer to GOLD (UCSB Student Gaucho On-line Data). If you do not ...
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Tech Titans – Santa Barbara & UCSB

The South Coast’s emergence has come largely from cutting-edge companies clustering around the latest technologies, from computing and lasers to infrared radiation and space engineering. Many were ...
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May 20 (Mon) @ 11:30am: "Advances in Nitrogen-polar GaN HEMTs Enabling Adoption in mm-Wave Applications," Henry Collins, ECE PhD Defense

Emerging high-frequency technologies such as satellite communication, 5G telecommunication, and autonomous vehicles necessitate the development of mm-wave power amplifiers. In this work, performance ...
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Dec 1 (Mon) @ 1:00pm: "Adaptive Methods for Prediction and Frame Reconstruction in Video Coding," Zeyu Deng, ECE PhD Defense

Efficient video compression relies heavily on accurate block prediction and effective frame reconstruction, both of which depend on statistical models that capture the characteristics of the encoded ...
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Jun 5 (Wed) @ 11:30am: “Surface Acoustic Waves Integrated with Solid-State Single Photon Sources and Superconducting Electronics,” Michael Choquer, ECE PhD Defense

Quantum interconnects—devices or processes that transfer quantum information between distinct physical degrees of freedom—are an essential component of many future quantum technologies. The promise of ...
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April 13 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: “Scaling, Stacking, and Cracking the Memory Wall,” Shyam Surthi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4108 (ECE Conf. Rm.) AI has exposed an inconvenient truth: computation is no longer the bottleneck — memory is. Despite decades of aggressive scaling, modern ...
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Jun 13 (Thu) @ 11:00am: ”Biomechanical Transmission as a Channel for Touch Information in Human Tactile Sensing,” Neeli Tummala, ECE PhD Defense

Touching an object with our hands generates skin oscillations that are biomechanically transmitted throughout the upper limb, exciting thousands of sensory neurons that convey touch information to the ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jan 16 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: “MEMS and Microsystems for Space Applications,” Mina Rais-Zadeh, Group Supervisor, Jet Propulsion Lab

The future of space exploration demands instrumentation that is ultra-miniaturized, robust, and capable of functioning reliably in harsh, extreme environments—from the cryogenic depths of outer space ...
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ECE Seminar Series – March 22 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: “Latest Progress and Challenges in 300 mm Monolithic Silicon Photonics Manufacturing,” Takako Hirokawa, Principal Device ...

In this talk, I will discuss the latest developments in the GlobalFoundries Fotonix TM program, including enhancements in device performance, packaging, PDK compact models, and in-house test ...
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May 30 (Thu) @ 2:00pm: "High Power Nitrogen-polar GaN/InAlN HEMT with Record Power Density of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz," Shigeki Yoshida, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Shigeki Yoshida is presenting record Ka-band power density from N-polar GaN HEMTs of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz, utilizing N-polar GaN/InAlN HEMTs. Shigeki Yoshida received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in ...